49 students scored 250, 2014 JAMB

ABUJA – THE Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board, JAMB,
Thrusday, said only 47 candidates scored 250
and above in the
Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Test
(DBT) modes of the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME) conducted across
the country last Saturday.
The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB,Prof.
Dibu Ojerinde, stated
this in Abuja, while announcing the release of
the 2014 UTME
results.
He said only 24 candidates scored 250 and
above in the PPT while
23 candidates scored 250 and above in the
DBT.
The JAMB boss while breaking down the
result of her 6th edition of
the UTME on the two modes, Ojerinde
disclosed that in PPT,
275,282 candidates scored below 150,
122,157 scored 150-159;
115,456 scored 160-169, 315,401 candidates
scored 170-199 while
108,488 candidates scored 200-249.
According to him, “In DBT, 2,471 candidates
scored below 150,
2,830 scored 150-159, 3,808 scored 160-169;
6,678 candidates
also scored between 170-199 while 1,309
candidates scored
200-249.
“A total of 990,179 candidates applied for
PPT while 25,325
candidates applied for DBT which amounts to
1,015,504 applicants”.
Prof Ojerinde said universities have highest
number of applicants as
first choice as not less than 995,901
candidates choose universities
as their first choice of institution, 13, 761
candidates choose
polytechnics as first choice; 20, 558 opted for
colleges of education
while 32 candidates choose innovative
enterprise institute as their
first choice.
Speaking on the conduct of the exams, Prof
Ojerinde said “the
examination was one of the most successfully
conducted exercise
ever by the Board”.
He said from the two modes of exam
conducted, there was a total
of 36,164 invalid results, 2,494 results were
with-held by the board
for further scrutinising while 37,315
candidates were absent form
the exams.
Also, a total of one thousand, eight hundred
and sixty-five centres
were used for the conduct of PPT and one
hundred and thirty-three
centres were used for DBT across the federal.
“In this year’s exercise the Board experienced
a remarkable
decrease in the number of applicants that
registered for the PPT.
“This reduction in number is attributed to the
growing confidence of
candidates in the Computer Based Test
(CBT), which definitely will
be full blown by 2015.
“Please take note, the 2014 CBT exercise will
take place from
Saturday, 17th May, 2014 to Saturday, 31st
May, 2014″, he said.
On exhibits recovered from centres during the
exams, Ojerinde said
this year witnessed a decrease in candidates’
desperation and
incidences of malpractice were not rampant
unlike last year.
He however said over a dozen handsets,
irregular answer sheets
among others were found on candidates.
Ojerinde however disclosed that a medical
doctor who sat for the
exam for his wife was caught in Jigawa state
and the matter he
said would be reported to the Nigerian Barr
Association (NBA).